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Rodriguez, Shelly R.; Harron, Jason R.; DeGraff, Michael W. – Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 2018
"Making" has been used to describe an internally motivated iterative design process that embodies notions of playful building and tinkering. Recently, interest in applying making to PK-12 education has increased. As schools add facilities dedicated to making, there is a need to support teachers in effectively utilizing these makerspaces.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, STEM Education, Performance Factors, Educational Environment
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Wegner, Claas; Weber, Phillip; Ohlberger, Stephanie – Themes in Science and Technology Education, 2014
In order to improve one's teaching in the long run, reflection on the lessons makes up an integral part in the process of developing a sufficient reflection competence. The problem, however, is how this reflection competence can be established in student teachers already and if that concept is compatible with current systems of teacher education…
Descriptors: Science Projects, Reflective Teaching, Preservice Teacher Education, Check Lists
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Szeberenyi, Jozsef – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2011
The term "restriction endonuclease mapping" covers a number of related techniques used to identify specific restriction enzyme recognition sites on small DNA molecules. A method for restriction endonuclease mapping of a 1,000-basepair (bp)-long DNA molecule is described in the fictitious experiment of this test. The most important fact needed to…
Descriptors: Genetics, Problem Solving, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology
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Dunlap, Laurie A. – MathAMATYC Educator, 2012
This article describes how to design program assessment for mathematics departments, in two-year and four-year colleges across the Midwest, based on a set of components that was generated from a Delphi survey. An example is provided to illustrate how this was done at a small four-year college. There is an alignment between these components and a…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Program Evaluation, Program Design, Research Design
Price, Elsa C. – 1995
This paper reports on the results of a class experiment in which advanced Human Anatomy and Physiology and beginning General Biology science students selected a science project using art as the medium of expression and demonstration. Students were allowed to select their own project, with the instructor's approval. Once a project was decided upon,…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Cognitive Style, College Students, Community Colleges
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 2002
The construction of the International Space Station (ISS) is one of humankind's most exciting and challenging endeavors. Numerous rocket launches are required to build this orbiting science laboratory. The purpose of this curriculum supplement is to introduce students in the Early Childhood classroom to the International Space Station and the role…
Descriptors: Space Exploration, Science Activities, Language Arts, Science Laboratories